RDA deceived landowners in Kamal Vihar project: Cong

Raipur, June 08, 2013

Congress on Saturday alleged that Raipur Development Authority (RDA) deceived landowners whose lands were acquired to development Kamal Vihar project. 

“The RDA had announced that the landowners would get 35% of their actual land in developed form but even in three years it has not commenced land allotment procedures for them. Instead, it is planning to first sell plots,” said Congress business cell president Kanhaiyya Agrawal. 

“The landowners are also not sure whether they would plot in the same place or elsewhere in the project area,” he said.

He alleged that the RDA wanted to first sell plots in prime locations and then allot the remaining ones to landowners. “Certainly, the landowners would not get anticipated benefit from these plots as their rate will be much low as compared to those in prime locations,” he added.

He further charged that Kamal Vihar project was progressing at snail’s pace and fund was being spent on those works in which officials were getting massive commission.

He pointed that large tracts of lands acquired by RDA for Kamal Vihar project belonged to farmers and some of them wanted to sell their lands to address their financial problems, but were unable to do so due to delay in completion of the project. 

He asked RDA to instantly allot developed plots to such farmers and other landowners and then sell remaining plots.